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title: "16 Difficult Art Quotes by 15 authors"
description: "Browse 16 Difficult Art quotes by 15 authors. Discover the best Difficult Art sayings and thoughts."
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> [There exists no more difficult art than living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/there-exists-no-more-difficult-art-than-living/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [Intimacy is a difficult art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/intimacy-is-a-difficult-art/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/virginia-woolf-49_art_intimacy-is-a-difficult-art-2163685_2163685.jpg)

> [It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-panter/it-would-be-difficult-to-do-art-without-music-music-subsidises-the-art/)

[Horace Panter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-panter/)

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> [To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asger-jorn/to-break-and-be-able-to-grow-together-again-in-a-better-way-that-is/)

[Asger Jorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asger-jorn/)

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> [“Mindfulness is the extremely difficult art of leaving the past and the future alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mokokoma-mokhonoana/mindfulness-is-the-extremely-difficult-art-of-leaving-the-past-and/)

[Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mokokoma-mokhonoana/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/mokokoma-mokhonoana-195_art_mindfulness-is-the-extremely-difficult-a_2755042.jpg)

> [A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-genn/a-high-price-may-be-part-of-the-mystique-in-selling-difficult-art/)

[Robert Genn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-genn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/robert-genn-2179_art_a-high-price-may-be-part-of-the-mystique_537668.png)

> [War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-bonaparte/war-is-not-at-all-such-a-difficult-art-as-people-think-in-reality-it/)

[Napoleon Bonaparte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-bonaparte/)

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> [It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iris-murdoch/it-is-difficult-in-life-to-be-good-and-difficult-in-art-to-portray/)

[Iris Murdoch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iris-murdoch/)

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> [The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-bonaparte/the-most-difficult-art-is-not-in-the-choice-of-men-but-in-giving-to/)

[Napoleon Bonaparte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-bonaparte/)

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> [“Stalking is a very difficult art to come to terms with, for in reality, you can’t apply yourself to it. This art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lujan-matus/stalking-is-a-very-difficult-art-to-come-to-terms-with-for-in-reality/)

[Lujan Matus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lujan-matus/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f26/lujan-matus-36280_art_stalking-is-a-very-difficult-art-to-come_727613.jpg)

> [I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-hill/i-think-art-has-a-right-not-an-obligation-to-be-difficult-if-it/)

[Geoffrey Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-hill/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/geoffrey-hill-28432_add_i-think-art-has-a-right-not-an-obligatio_1867146.png)

> [There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-osler/there-is-no-more-difficult-art-to-acquire-than-the-art-of-observation/)

[William Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-osler/)

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> [I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-soderbergh/i-think-that-music-is-a-very-difficult-art-form-in-which-to-be-avant/)

[Steven Soderbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-soderbergh/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7be/steven-soderbergh-2075_art_i-think-that-music-is-a-very-difficult-a_2414514.png)

> [the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-stewart/the-difficult-art-i-was-attempting-had-indeed-a-powerful-fascination/)

[Mary Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-stewart/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00f/mary-stewart-5317_art_the-difficult-art-i-was-attempting-had-i_2754503.png)

> [When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-stormare/when-i-was-in-school-they-say-everybody-can-do-art-and-i-was-like-a/)

[Peter Stormare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-stormare/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e8/peter-stormare-15713_anarchist_when-i-was-in-school-they-say-everybody_2790509.jpg)

> [A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-d-roosevelt/a-world-turned-into-a-stereotype-a-society-converted-into-a-regiment/)

[Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-d-roosevelt/)

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